United Farmers of Alberta

The United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative and former progressive political party in Alberta, Canada that was active from 1919 to 1939. In 1919, the UFA entered into direct politics instead of lobbying, and the UFA was affiliated with the Progressive Party of Canada from 1920 to 1930, winning all but two of the Alberta federal seats in the 1921 elections. The UFA was elected without a leader, and UFA executive leader Herbert Greenfield was ultimately chosen to lead the party. The party introduced proportional representation and ended Prohibition in 1923, but the Great Depression led to a decline in the party's support. The crash in grain prices an the simultaneous drought in southern Alberta hurt its support base, farmers, and the Social Credit Party of Alberta became a potent force among Alberta's farmers from 1933 to 1935. In 1935, the party was defeated in a Social Credit landslide, and many of its members joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.